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David Lenaerts

@derschmale.bsky.social
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Freelance VFX & graphics developer. Lizard dad, dog dad, cat dad, neurodivergent, abuser of musical instruments. www.derschmale.com

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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My first character model; looks kinda familiar 🥲 (not for narcissistic reasons, I swear!) #blender
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another hero passes: www.theguardian.com/science/2026... :(
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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90
MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Published @derschmale/tiny-helix v0.2.0: some extra support (depth bias, indirect drawing, float filtering, ...) and a bunch of bugfixes. github.com/DerSchmale/t...
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Release 0.2.0 · DerSchmale/tiny-helix
Support instancing Allow sharing TinyHelix contexts with sibling instances Optional shader-f16 support through half types (half, vec2h, vec3h, vec4h), falls back to 32 bit Indirect drawing support ...
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Progress on the little islands. #webgpu #tinyhelix
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Applying my newly acquired Blender skills to create some low-LOD pine trees. Very inspired by my recent trip to Finland :)
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In The Iliad, people are constantly looting their kills in the midst of battle. Good to know I was playing AC Odyssey accurately. [pedantry awareness note: I know, I know; completely different time period]
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just released v0.2.0 of @derschmale/tiny-input. Now with the overdue Touch plugin :) npm: www.npmjs.com/package/@der... Github: github.com/DerSchmale/t...
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Playing with water and fake distant waves. Forgot to eat 🙊 (ignore the crappy terrain, very much a WIP)
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
While everyone is unlearning, I'm avoiding ML while learning new tools and feeling good about it :) Finally getting to grips with @gaxil.bsky.social's Geogen for my portfolio website. As well as Affinity, Blender, ... Not overwhelmed at all 🤯
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Rob Bateman @robnet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Behold the majesty of @nicoptere.bsky.social 's lightening talk with AI Attenborough #threejsconf #threejs ⚡
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here we go!
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💉🔪🩸kelly 'arekay' yeo🩸💉🔪 @kellyarekayyeo.com · 09/09/2026
We fucking did it y’all
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Frodo's Iconic 'It's Done' Moment
Alt: Frodo from the end of Return of the King, looking very haggard while Mordor’s lava flows in the background, captioned “It’s done.”
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'll be there!
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I never owned a TV because all of them have tech-aids, but holy shit this needs a really nice GDPR investigation!
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Some more updates after adding shadows and tweaking a bunch of stuff. As always, the fun (and my non-awareness of time) is in the tweaking. #webgpu
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Finally getting back to the SH cloud billboards: better cloud grouping, adding some different layers (all baked). #webgpu
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mjp @mjp123.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Being an open source maintainer in 2026
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I had no idea there was a new Quake episode! I loved the other recent Machine Games episodes. To the dimensions! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAUM...
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Quake: Dawn of the Machine - Official Launch Trailer
YouTube video by IGN
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Count Zero, William Gibson
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I'm way more excited about Final Fantasy Resonance than it probably has any right to 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tmn...
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Final Fantasy Resonance - Official Pixel Trailer
YouTube video by IGN
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It was a good year 🔥
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Trump to attend World Cup final. Lubricate those vocal cords, laddies!
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The Simpsons: Mr. Burns' Boo-Urns
ALT: The Simpsons: Mr. Burns' Boo-Urns
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I'm sure Biden is responsible for this too: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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'Explosive diarrhea' outbreak source remains a mystery
Experts say there were likely multiple points of contamination in the US food supply - complicating investigations.
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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In Greek mythology Narcissus is brought down by Green reflecting pool 🤔
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
US seeking impunity for its war crimes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court
Trump’s secretary of state claims the global tribunal is interfering with US military and law enforcement operations
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Spain was the better team, congrats! But still proud of our little brave Belgium ❤️ But boy, am I tired of getting knocked out with such "what if" scenarios 😅
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025
Farage: epic grifter
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Alex Battaglia @dachsjaeger.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Microsoft should exit the gaming industry and preferably my plane of existence. If BDS was not enough to convince sideliners, what MS did to id is unforgivable. Perhaps the most important western gaming studio in existence - a historied house of culture and art with genre defining talent.
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You know Aldous Huxley had a point when starting an illegal war sparks less outrage than messing with people's entertainment.
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Tickets booked! Looking forward to hang out with the ThreeJS crowd again at threejs.paris (have been mostly doing cross-platform 3D in Rust the past 2 years). See you there?
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Three.js Conf Paris
The first Three.js conference in Paris. Join the community, discover the lineup, and be part of the event.
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Suraj has a point.
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I've always wanted to have a phone with Maps, calendar, practical daily life stuff, but without a browser, social media, data whoring, etc. Looks like Commodore is building exactly that: commodore.net/callback/ . Definitely interested!
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Callback 8020: The Future of Flip-Phones
Meet Callback 8020: the perfect blend of functionality and privacy in a Flip-Phone, no social media or browser allowed.
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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
palantirwatch.org
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Pet peeve: chromatic aberration in video games. Usually the first thing I disable in the settings 😅
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Gorilla spotted on the local cemetery!
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I would love an Insomniac Spider-Noir game completely in black and white.
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"Play fetch, not Crimson Desert, dad!"
A Toller looking sideways as if to say "oh he's playing Crimson Desert again instead of fetch"
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Already got my ticket for this year's Graphics Programming Conference in Breda. No talks announced yet, but it's bound to be great :) graphicsprogrammingconference.com
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Graphics Programming Conference
The Graphics Programming Conference is a conference for graphics programmers, from student to industry veteran, taking place in November in Europe.
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
To three days of post-rock at Dunk festival! ❤️
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The ultimate conclusion reached with @simppafi.bsky.social on our holidays in Slovenia: "There's no point. Only point of view."
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/05/2026
Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: scim.ag/42dMPBg
To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake.
Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points.Investigators also examine reflections. The lines connecting points on an object to matching points in its mirror image run parallel in reality, so similarly should meet at a vanishing point. In this image, the lines again do not converge on one point, revealing it to be a fake.
Image: An AI-generated image of a plastic cartoon dinosaur toy with its reflection visible in a small mirror. Four dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting points on the toy with the same points on its reflection: the top of its eye, the end of its jaw, its hand, and its foot. The lines extend out to the side of the image, where they all cross at different points rather than meeting at a single point.Shadows can be a giveaway, too. Because the Sun is so far away, its rays are essentially parallel when they reach Earth's surface. That means that the lines connecting points on an object to the shadows they cast in sunlight should also intersect at a vanishing point. In this Al-generated image, that is clearly not the case.
Image: An AI-generated image of colorful, semi-transparent plastic cubes arranged in a group in a city plaza. Six dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting corners of several cubes with the corresponding corners in their shadows. The lines extend upward off the edge of the image, toward where a vanishing point should be. Three of them converge on roughly the same point, but two extend further, and one cuts across all the others at an angle.
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Colin Duffy @tomorrowevening.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
3D printed ship wheel connected to a rotary encoder + ESP32, sending updates over a WebSocket server on a PI3, listening in Unreal Engine
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
bedtime
age 0-7: bedtime is real
age 7-30: bedtime isn't real!!!
age 30-: bedtime is real
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
As much as I dislike Google, sometimes they still make me laugh 😂
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Cat of Damocles
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A friend and I were once asked to leave the Scientology Kirken in Copenhagen for being too weird. At the time, we didn't even really know what Scientology was.
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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I adored Scavengers Reign, a very imaginative animated sci-fi series. It would make a terrific open-world survival game. www.imdb.com/title/tt2105...
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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
INTRODUCTION TO SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR GRAPHICS PROGRAMMERS finally done. gpfault.net/posts/sph.html
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Introduction to Spherical Harmonics for Graphics Programmers
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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Agreed. As a game programmer and as a researcher.
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Javier Arevalo @thejare.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hello from the lower left side the world!
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